December 2, 2018 Service Change

To better serve our transit customers, the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada (RTC) is pleased to bring riders a number of upgrades to its fixed route system beginning Sunday, Dec. 2, 2018.

Common Abbreviations and Definitions:

EB: Eastbound

WB: Westbound

NB: Northbound

SB: Southbound

On-Time Performance: Timeliness, reliability

Span of service: the hours of the day (and days of week) that a transit route operates –for example, if the first trip on a route begins at 4:30 a.m. and the last trip begins at 1 a.m., the span of service is 4:30 a.m. to 1 a.m. Only span changes of 20 minutes or more are noted below.

Frequent Service: a minimum of every 15 minutes or better during weekday daytime hours and every 20 minutes or better during evenings & weekends.

Elimination of service to O’Callaghan Hospital between about 6 a.m. & 7:30 a.m. due to extremely low ridership. First trips to O’Callaghan Hospital will arrive there at about 7:35 – 7:40 a.m. each day.

Extend all daytime & evening trips into Henderson. This results in every 20 minute daytime frequency along Stephanie, seven days a week, with evening service every 30 minutes. Current frequency south of Russell is every 40 minutes during daytime hours & hourly in the evenings.

Mtn. Vista turnaround eliminated; nearest bus stops for Route 115 will be along Nellis. Route 201 will also remain available on Tropicana.

SECTA students are advised to use Route 212 –Sunset for closest transit access.

South end layover point for half of daytime trips will now be at Gibson & Mary Crest, instead of Stephanie & Horizon Ridge. This will make service within the south end loop more convenient by eliminating the need to wait through a layover for some customers.

Additional SB weekdays trip added beginning around 6:30 p.m. This results in the transition from 30 minute to hourly SB frequency now occurring one hour later.

Span of service decrease: elimination of 4:21 a.m. NB weekends & holidays trip due to extremely low ridership. This results in NB service now starting approximately one hour later each weekend & holiday morning, at 5:15 a.m.

Span of service decrease: elimination of 12:31 a.m. NB trip due to extremely low ridership. This results in NB service now ending one hour earlier each night, with the last NB trip of the evening beginning at 11:31 p.m.

Eliminate 6:16 p.m. NB weekdays trip due to extremely low ridership. This results in the transition from 30 minute to hourly NB frequency now occurring one hour earlier.

New timepoint added at Paradise to provide more precise information to customers.

Due to low ridership, 3:30 a.m. EB daily trip modified to begin at Rainbow (at 3:42 a.m.), rather than at Grand Canyon & Rochelle. This results in EB frequency of once an hour west of Rainbow during the 3 a.m. hour.

Routing modification in the Downtown area to make trips faster & improve On-Time Performance; exact routing as follows:

Eastbound: from NB Shadow Lane, travel east on Alta / Bonneville and service BTC at new Bay 17b on EB Bonneville just west of Casino Center. Then, continue east on Bonneville, north on 4th, east on Stewart, and resume current routing.

Westbound: from WB Stewart, travel south on Las Vegas Blvd., west on Clark, and south on Casino Center to service Bay 18 at BTC. Then, continue south on Casino Center, west on Garces, north on Main, west on Bonneville / Alta, and resume current routing.

Bus stops along Main Street between Bonneville & Stewart will no longer be served by Route 207, but service at those stops will remain available on Routes 106, 208, & 214. Route 207 will now also serve bus stops along 4th Street & Las Vegas Blvd.

Make permanent a routing modification that was implemented in September 2018 due to an NDOT I-215 lane configuration change. Exact routing as follows:

Eastbound: from EB Warm Springs, travel south on Gibson, east on Auto Show, south on Eastgate, east on Lake Mead Pkwy, and resume current routing.

Westbound: from WB Lake Mead Pkwy, travel north on Eastgate, west on Auto Show, north on Gibson, west on Warm Springs, and resume current routing.

Bus stops along Gibson south of Auto Show Drive will no longer be served by Route 217. However, service remains available with Route 115 at stops on southbound Gibson south of American Pacific.

Span of service decrease: elimination of 12:11 a.m. WB trip due to extremely low ridership. This results in WB service now ending one hour earlier each night, with the last WB trip of the evening beginning at 11:11 p.m.

Additional weekdays & Saturdays trips added in both directions during the 10 p.m. hour. This results in the transition from 20 minute to 30 minute frequency now occurring one hour later at night, Monday through Saturday.

Additional SB Saturday trip added during the 4 a.m. hour. This results in the transition from hourly to 30 minute SB Saturday frequency now occurring one hour earlier.

Service to CSN Henderson on weekdays will now end one hour earlier. Last trip will depart CSN at 10:05 p.m. on weekdays.

The first SX-A WB trip of the morning on weekdays & Saturdays will now begin at Nellis & Charleston instead of Hollywood & Lake Mead. This results in the first SX-A WB trip serving Hollywood & Lake Mead beginning at 5:17 a.m. on weekdays / 5:36 a.m. on Saturdays.

The last SX-A EB trip of the evening will now end at Nellis & Sahara instead of Hollywood & Lake Mead. This results in the last SX-A EB trip serving Hollywood & Lake Mead departing Boulder Hwy at 10:26 p.m. on weekdays / 10:36 p.m. on Saturdays.